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pith:P7LYGIFF

pith:2016:P7LYGIFFT3NMNNUDVMSM23YDGX

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Reliability of universal decoding based on vector-quantized codewords

Neri Merhav

arxiv:1609.08868 v1 · 2016-09-28 · cs.IT · math.IT

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\pithnumber{P7LYGIFFT3NMNNUDVMSM23YDGX}

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First computed	2026-05-18T01:03:41.697418Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

7fd78320a59edac6b683ab24cd6f0335d10ad324e5c1fb0dc9182412a6765fdc

Aliases

arxiv: 1609.08868 · arxiv_version: 1609.08868v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1609.08868 · pith_short_12: P7LYGIFFT3NM · pith_short_16: P7LYGIFFT3NMNNUD · pith_short_8: P7LYGIFF

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/P7LYGIFFT3NMNNUDVMSM23YDGX \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: 7fd78320a59edac6b683ab24cd6f0335d10ad324e5c1fb0dc9182412a6765fdc

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "19b81210d5449ebed31e90dfb156efd5ad9aa20d210e7ac56ca7b2bfb5df4844",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2016-09-28T11:57:33Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f4d67b7bc3998b5771ad5215234e7ff8187fbb2eb51968d2fda03b6db80592de"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1609.08868",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}